I've been working on a website since December 15th. I'd been working on it in 2012, but school and other things caused me to forget about it for a while. It has crash tests for 1979-1989 vehicles, as these results are unavailable on the main NHTSA site (they do 1990-2010). Dummy measurements and likelihood of severe injury are provided, along with a conversion to the 1994-2010 five star system of measurement. (This system can be retroactively applied for any 1979-1993 test, as the test format and procedure remained largely the same.) As of December 29, 2013 at 9:45 pm PST (11:45 pm CST) the website is nearly complete and I am targeting a December 31st (or 30th) date for completion. The test results were obtained from the publicly available NHTSA database. I am not affiliated in any way with the NHTSA.
oldnhtsa.blogspot.com
So, if you have an '80s car... here you go.
On this blog, some posts related to findings from these tests will be posted. The Old NHTSA blog is strictly for individual crash test posting (and a few updates...)
The tests are sobering to say the least. Some of the vehicles did downright horrendous (especially in the earlier years). Some of the vehicles, especially in the later years, did well even by modern standards. Most fell somewhere in the middle. The improvements seen were encouraging. Even better, many of the high selling cars of the era garnered good ratings, while many poor selling cars were at the bottom of the barrel. Of course, there were a good number of exceptions to this rule. Trucks and SUVs did worse on average than their contemporary cars. (Much of the improvement in their test results came in the 1990s, after this blog's coverage runs out).
oldnhtsa.blogspot.com
So, if you have an '80s car... here you go.
On this blog, some posts related to findings from these tests will be posted. The Old NHTSA blog is strictly for individual crash test posting (and a few updates...)
The tests are sobering to say the least. Some of the vehicles did downright horrendous (especially in the earlier years). Some of the vehicles, especially in the later years, did well even by modern standards. Most fell somewhere in the middle. The improvements seen were encouraging. Even better, many of the high selling cars of the era garnered good ratings, while many poor selling cars were at the bottom of the barrel. Of course, there were a good number of exceptions to this rule. Trucks and SUVs did worse on average than their contemporary cars. (Much of the improvement in their test results came in the 1990s, after this blog's coverage runs out).
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